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A way out that is non-extant
Posted by Aleš Šteger | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
The predictions from the political prophets of doom have proven sadly accurate. The EU was abolished several months ago.
Variations on a Theme
Posted by Judith Vonberg | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
There’s an unusual series of events happening at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London. I was there for the first one. Sitting in a large white-walled room, its vast windows overlooking a secluded ...
Shakespeare is English!
Posted by Rosie Goldsmith | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
A few years ago I presented a BBC Radio programme called ‘Shakespeare is German’ about a season of Shakespeare plays and films performed in German in the UK, organized by The Globe Theatre in London, ...
Love at First Sight: British Crime Fiction and the Germans
Posted by Judith Vonberg | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
For two days at the end of January, ‘Brit Crime’ took over the Humboldt University in Berlin. It was the British Council’s annual literature seminar, bringing together contemporary British writers ...
Peter Vermeersch (BE): Night Travellers
Posted by Peter Vermeersch | Permalink | filed under: European Literature Days: opening lectures, The Migrants, 2016
Most of the time you don’t notice them, also not when you’re leaving on another trip, even though you damn well know they’re there. They too are on the move.
Copyright laws in Austria/ Urheberrechtsgesetze in Österreich
Posted by Gerhard Ruiss | Permalink | filed under: Copyright Controversy, 2016, Innovations in the Digital Field
Good at being right – bad at defining right
The Favourites Are Dying Out
Posted by Rainer Moritz | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
It’s time to discuss the next round of prizewinners gain. Hardly has the usual flurry of excitement in the run-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair and the German Book Prize award to Frank Witzel subsided ...
European Literature? /Europäische Literatur?
Posted by Katja Petrovic | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
Does European literature exist? If so, in what way is it influenced by writers whose lives and works are rooted in the diverse cultures, languages and countries? Nicole Bary, the French publisher and ...
Literary merit and contemporary themes: Best European Fiction 2016 & Essential New European Literature, Volume I
Posted by West Camel | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
2016 sees a Europe in flux, with the clarity, certainty and purpose of its post-war projects being disrupted by both internal and external forces.
Libraries Matter
Posted by Rosie Goldsmith | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
Saturday February 6th 2016 is National Libraries Day in the UK. Literary luminaries, from Joanna Trollope, Ali Smith and Neil Gaiman, to former poet laureate Andrew Motion, have lined up to support ...
